Staying Inspired

I have been crazy busy the last few weeks. I’ve had both personal fun (went to a Penn State game, NYC, had company, ran the great race) and professional obligations (trying to get a swanky new version of a couple of our products out the door ASAP). It has caused me to neglect my normal amount of reading blogs/news and following people on Twitter as well as showing up at local networking stuff like the Rhomania tasting I had to skip last Thursday and Wednesday’s Open Coffee Club. I’ve come to an interesting conclusion this week though; not keeping up with news/twitter/networking actually hurts my productivity.

The reality is that human nature prevents us from being heads down and focused 100% of the time. Try to use some of the time that you’re going to putter away naturally to soak up the reasons you’re so focused most of the time.